Infant/Toddler Quality Activities Report
Child Care and Development Fund/American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Instructions: Fill in the allowable activity(ies) the Board will fund or is currently funding. Planned activities report must contain activity description and
expected results. Quarterly status reports must include the name of the entity providing the activity and a brief status update on the activities during the
quarter. E-mail completed report to Board’s assigned senior contract manager.
Local Workforce Development Board Southeast _X_ Planned Activities Report
Report Type
Report Prepared by Cindy Landry _ _Quarterly Status Report
Contact Telephone Number 409-719-4750 Date of Report 7/24/09
Name and Type
of Entity Expected
Activity(ies) Description (governmental or Quarterly Status Update
nongovernmental) Results /
Quality Activity (include activity names, ages targeted, and (brief narrative, including progress
Providing Actual
a short narrative) toward expected results)
Activities Results
1. Activities to promote A session will be held at the Child Care Workforce Solutions 50
inclusive child care Conference to promote activities appropriate for Southeast Texas participants
for infants/toddlers. children with disabilities and activities for inclusion Early Childhood will be
in the classrooms. Intervention trained in
the area of
Inclusion
Activites
2. Professional Quarterly Technical Assistance Sessions will be Workforce Solutions 100 infant
development for held for infant/toddler teachers and materials will Southeast Texas toddler
infant/toddler child be purchased to support activities in the classroom. teachers will
care. receive
training and
materials
3. Activities to increase Existing facilities that open another infant or Workforce Solutions 5 classes
capacity for infants toddler classrom in their facility will receive up to Southeast Texas will be
and toddlers. 2,500.00 in materials to assist in the expansion. served
4. Activities that Community partnerships will be utilized to provide Workforce Solutions Up to 800
a conference for up to 800 participants in the field
promote collaboration Southeast Texas participants
with Early Head of early childhood. These local agencies to include DFPS Child Care will be
but are not limited to:
Start, ECI, or other Licensing trained at the
local agencies and DFPS Child Care Licensing Texas AgriLife child care
organizations. Texas AgriLife Extension (Liberty, Jefferson, and Extension (Liberty, conference
Orange County) Jefferson, and Orange
Lamar University County)
Lamar Institute of Technology Lamar University
Region V Education Service Center Lamar Institute of
WD Letter 22-09, Attachment 3 1
Texas Early Education Model Coordinators Technology
Region V Education
Service Center
Texas Early Education
Model Coordinators
5. Activities that Providers that open a infant or toddler room that Workforce Solutions 100
support/supplement have not had one before will receive up to 2500.00 Southeast Texas participants
DFPS infant/toddler in materials for providing care to the target group. will receive
CCDF ARRA Caregivers that maintain a year of employment at gift cards if
activities. the same site in the infant or toddler classroom will maintained
receive a 100.00 gift card from Walmart to promote employment
continuity of care in the facility and reduce staff is completed
turnover. at the same
site and 5
facilities
will recive
materials for
set up of
new
classrooms
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